I see in -current syslinux is at version 3.84. I would suggest upgrading it to latest, 4.03. Reasons being, as far I know, syslinux is the only bootloader that can boot directly into btrfs, without requiring a seperate /boot. Slack's -current version only allows for ext2/3, where as syslinux now supports ext2/3/4 and btrfs.

I am doing a manual upgrade of syslinux, so I don't need it in -current, but still a suggestion for people wanting a full btrfs only install. TIP: From what I've read, it does require /boot to be in the root of btrfs as a mkdir and not as a subvolume.

sahko

04-10-2011 04:08 PM

I would like that too, but dont think its gonna happen so close to release. And it had been requested before, some days ago.

piratesmack

04-10-2011 04:48 PM

I sent Pat an e-mail regarding syslinux about a week ago, and from his reply it doesn't sound like he'll be updating until after 13.37 is released.

Quote:

I'll consider their request the next time we update syslinux, but it's working well right now (and has been unchanged for over a year) so it won't be changed before the 13.37 release.

Mon Jun 25 17:22:40 UTC 2012
a/syslinux-4.05-x86_64-1.txz: Upgraded.
It's not too late for this. Thanks to piratesmack for the reminder.

Eric

Alien Bob

06-25-2012 03:24 PM

Oops, second post deleted.. went into the wrong thread...

piratesmack

06-25-2012 04:30 PM

Wow, that was fast. Thanks Pat

CTM

06-25-2012 05:38 PM

Rejoice! Thanks guys :)

ruario

06-27-2012 04:37 PM

Really glad I stumbled onto this thread. I hadn't really thought about Syslinux being part of Slack. Having recently played around with it (well Extlinux), I think it might be my new favourite boot manager. It is simple to understand, easy to configure and has some features that lilo is missing like booting from a GPT partitioned disk.

Anyway, even though I was hardly aware of it just a couple of days ago I'm glad that the update made it into 14, since I'll probably switch to it for my next install. ;)